ALLEGED SLANDER.
WELLINGTON, Decomber &.
Thifi afternoon the Chief Justice and a jxiry of 12 commenced' the hearing of an action in which James Dennett Eought to recover J2301 ( damages from William Thomson .for alleger slander. Defendant is minister of Scots Church, Wellington, an independent organisation, and was formerly %iinistqr in the Presbyterian Church. Plaintiff .is a builder," and was at one 1 time superintendent in the Sunday Schol connected, with defendant's church. It was stated that plaintiff became engaged to « female ' teacher in the Sunday ESchool in August. Defendant was alleged to have qought to break off the engage-, meht, made a statement that the plaintiff assaulted a little arirl. The defence was a denial that the w^rds were spoken: that if they were iised they had been uttered by the defendant in the lt^ipßt b°lief of their truth. The en«p partly heard when the court ro°? Plaintiff ■'vno ■non-evite'l on one of (lie ,>JlofrationK. T)<>feri'd.vr!t <!r;m"'! »»nK< t» ji.d sfrvHd in rvHeiiCF tl .it h • li.i'l UL-letl 'is rnPiliator "hchvi-oTi Uic part it:-. .r-> tfioir 111111iqtcr 1 .
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10817, 6 December 1902, Page 5
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178ALLEGED SLANDER. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10817, 6 December 1902, Page 5
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